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"Built 1971. Closed due to barge collision February 2019; reopened May 2019. Closed due to collision with runaway barges during Tropical Storm Imelda September 20, 2019." [BridgeHunter]
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AccuWeather
AccuWeather's Jonathan Petramala reports from Houston, Texas, where nine barges broke away from a shipyard Friday morning. At least two slammed into the I-10 San Jacinto River Bridge near Channelview, Texas. Both sides of I-10 East were forced to shut down. |
Below, we can see that it shattered the first pylon. Not only can we see the rebar, there is an air gap in the pylon just above the waterline. You can also see a gap of a few feet between the grey girder on the left and the black cross girder in the middle. Given that the cross girder fell a few feet, I don't know what is holding the road up on this side.
Since the barge is low in the water, it is full. The pipes on top indicate this barge carries liquids. Given that this is in the Houston area, I'm sure it is full of a nasty liquid. So the silver lining is that the barge remained intact.
Zooming out on the satellite map, there are not a lot of alternate routes across that river. I wonder how quickly
Lynchburg Ferry can get some more boats.
Texas has had a couple of 40"+ rains in just a few years. Is a 40"+ rain supposed to be a 100-year, 500-year or a 1000-year event. How do you build an infrastructure to handle that much rain?
The local loudmouth liberal "journalist" had to put in his one-cent's (decreased value due to lack of credibility) worth of cheap remark:
ReplyDelete"Ted Cruz and other Republican congressman have quickly forgotten their conservative principles: "Mr. President, we need your help."
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